About GNU Compilation Tools

DS-5 includes a distribution of the GNU Compilation Tools.

These tools can be used to build applications and libraries
suitable for ARM Linux targets, including the example ARM Linux
distribution that is available in the DS-5 examples directory. They
are not suitable for building:

bare-metal
ARM targets

ARM targets running any operating system other than
ARM Linux

non-ARM targets.

The GNU Compilation Tools are located in tools_directory.
You can use them to build your applications from either the command-line
or within Eclipse.

Table 2. GNU Compilation Tools

Tool

Description

arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ar

GNU librarian

arm-none-linux-gnueabi-as

GNU assembler

arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc

GNU c compiler

arm-none-linux-gnueabi-g++

GNU C++ compiler

arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld

GNU linker

Getting Started with the GNU Compilation Tools is
located in documents_directory\gcc.